I am happy to announce the official launch of Basho Academy. The Basho Academy provides a platform to educate users about our family of Riak products. This will help expose a broader audience of developers and operators to the powerful tools already being successfully deployed by world-class enterprises such as Best Buy, Bet365, Comcast, OpenX, and Uber, to name a few

This article introduces Riak Spark Connector, an open source library which bridges the gap between Apache Spark and Riak NoSQL database. It brings the full power of Apache Spark to the operational data, managed in Riak distributed clusters.

I’m from New York City. All the things to see, places to be, a food for every taste, people everywhere… and traffic. Wall to wall traffic. New York is renowned for many things and at the top of that list would be parking lots. Huge parking lots. The best parking lots. I’m looking at you Midtown. West Side Highway. FDR. BQE.

Riak TS 1.3 launch is just days away and since 1.3 will include the first Open Source release we thought we’d set the stage, give you access to some fun time series data and guide you through an example of a practical Riak TS use case. This demo shows how Riak TS can be used for analysis of historical time series data being generated by sensors to predict the occurrence of an event.